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The search for the best of the property industry is underway as nominations are now open for the 2024 Variety North...

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...

Co-living specialist Built Asset Management has snapped up a fourth rival operator in three years.  ProCo-Living joins the BAM business portfolio with...

Propertymark has emphasised the importance of retaining fixed term tenancies under the Renters Reform Bill. Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson met Housing...

Sharpened rules to double council tax on long term empty properties will come into force from April 1, says the government.  A...

The PropTech sector has mostly agreed with the rest of the industry in its view on yesterday’s Budget - that it...

Property professionals have less than 48 hours to submit entries for the Midlands PROPs Awards.  The search for the very best of...

Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has confirmed that Awaab’s Law - putting a strict timescale on urgent repairs being done -...

While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...

The Renters Reform Bill cannot succeed without proper engagement with letting agents and landlords, Propertymark argues.    According to a Freedom of Information...

There were 12,000 first time buyers over the age of 50 in the UK in 2022, the latest figures available. This means...

Savills says prime rental growth across London and the country has stalled for the first time in almost three years. In prime...

Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...

Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...

The date has been set for the Spring Budget - the last before the General Election.  It’s to be on Wednesday March...

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

High achieving agents in lettings and other sectors of our industry have been recognised at a prestigious London celebration. Learners, apprentices, employers...

A new rental website which claims to list “all available homes for young people in one place” has raised well over...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Local media in one of Britain’s busiest cities for rentals says tenants have been left in tears as a result of...

Young couples are delaying marriage and starting families until they get out of the rental sector, research by Yorkshire Building Society...

Some prospective buy to let landlords may be about to use their equity to snap up investment properties at discounted rates,...

The UK’s housing market is increasingly driven by older, affluent home owners with younger generations squeezed out.  That’s the view of data...

Labour’s new shadow Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, Angela Rayner, says she will put council Housing at the heart of...

Financial support from family members - not just parents - is expected to help fund 318,400 housing transactions in 2023, according...

The company which owned and was responsible for a five-storey block of rented flats in Bridlington has been ordered to pay...

A personal finance expert has revealed that a new group which he calls Guppies are reconciled to possibly renting forever. Alan Davison,...

Elliot Leigh - an agency that is the largest guaranteed rent provider in London and Essex - has completed phase one...

One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...

Tenants want letting agents, landlords and other property industry figures to more openly demonstrate their green credentials. That’s the message from a...

New research shows that over half of parents charge their adults children for living at home - although the sums involved...

A comparison website has compiled a list of what it claims to be the most common lies on tenancy applications -...

The fast growing agency Lomond - which has snapped up a string of independents in the past two years - is...

A London lettings and sales agency has launched an apprenticeship scheme. The JOHNS&CO Academy invites young people to train via courses ranging...

Rising rents mean the share of young people leaving the family home and moving into rented accommodation has plunged, says Hamptons...

A prominent group of economists has predicted the measures in the Renters Reform Bill will backfire on the government. Matthew Lesh, Director...

OnTheMarket has been named amongst the UK’s best employers in The Times Best Places to Work 2023 initiative. The nationwide workplace survey...

A keynote speaker at the upcoming Propertymark One event is Gerald Ratner. In 1991 Ratner - then chief executive of a down...

Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...

A think tank claims one in six young people live in poor quality housing, often in the private rental sector. The claim...

A lettings sector trade body says implementing well thought-out appraisals is a key element to attracting and retaining valued personnel. The UK...

A veteran Conservative is calling on his government to clamp down on HMOs and ensure there is better council regulation and...

Leaders Romans Group's Suburban Build To Rent team has been appointed to jointly manage and maintain over 100 Build to Rent...

The government must focus on measures in next week’s Budget that will boost significantly the supply of homes, according to lettings...

A high profile mortgage lender operating in the buy to let sector has launched a series of products aimed at investors...

A property firm is claiming that nearly half of the UK’s younger generation of renters stay up at night worrying about...

Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...

The political party propping up the Scottish Government says higher taxes on buy to lets will help the housing market be...

Keyzy, a rent-to-own service aimed at aspiring homeowners, has raised £3m in a seed funding round.  The proceeds will accelerate its purchases...

A young family have started 2023 in their new permanent home after a London council recovered the property from an illegal...

Prime rental growth in London ended 2022 up 10.9 per cent on the year, according to Savills prime lettings index, as...

A tax expert says the current economic climate has made it so hard to save for a deposit that many tenants...

Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...

Today we are publishing a letter sent to us regarding the death of a relative who was living in rental accommodation.  We...

One of the politicians backing a tax surcharge on the purchase of second homes and buy to lets has been put...

A lettings network is urging landlords to back a campaign to abolish council tax re-banding for shared houses. Platinum Property Partners says...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I'm Vik Tara and on my business card it says...

A lettings agency in the Brighton area which describes itself as “ethical” is closing down due to staffing issues and the...

Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...

Rishi Sunak has won the Conservative leadership campaign and is set to become Prime Minister tomorrow. Over the summer Sunak set out...

Leaders Romans Group has announced the creation of a Build To Rent Taskforce, using a different brand name - Three Sixty...

The man behind a new survey of tenants’ voting intentions claims the Conservatives need to worry about losing support amongst young...

Increased demand and investor appetite for purpose built Single Family Rental schemes have seen this niche market grow at scale, according...

Private renters’ average floor space per person in England has fallen by 16 per cent over the past 20 years while...

An independent lettings agency is opening its third bricks-and-mortar branch, under two years after the launch of the business. Hat and Home’s...

A major lettings sector supplier says the industry must do more to appeal to win employees from the TikTok generation. These typically...

Rising numbers of young people going to university and a relatively low supply of new student housing means that by 2025...

A series of BBC reports over the weekend highlighted what the broadcaster calls “a brewing cost-of-living crisis:” triggered by high rents. Citing...

Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...

Two senior agents are joining the Propertymark Qualifications board to bring a combined 64 years of experience. Jan Hytch - residential and...

A lettings platform has joined forces with - wait for it - an astrologer, to find ideal places for people with...

Tenants’ bills are expected to hit a record £63 billion this year - and much of it is down to the...

Holiday lets and second homes in one hotspot in the UK have not, after all, impacted on house prices and affordability,...

The number of middle-age and later life tenants living in privately rented homes has accelerated faster than those under the age...

The agency operated by the immediate past president of ARLA Propertymark has received a government award for its work with apprentices.  Maxine...

A PropTech supplier is warning lettings agents that they risk being outpaced by competitors if they neglect social media. Craig Vile, director...

The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...

Nowadays, we rely on social media platforms to stay informed and updated about topics that are of interest to us.  These platforms...

The man behind the Ideal Flatmate rental platform has now set up a Build To Rent portal called Your Place. All properties...

A tech firm claims the “vast majority” of agents who use WhatsApp and some other instant messaging platforms are not fully...

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...

There’s been a broad welcome from letting agents to the Spring Statement not loading more tax or restrictions on buy to...

Expanding North East agency Hive Estates has acquired a Newcastle lettings business as part of its plans for growth - and...

A local authority is launching an investigation into what housing options there are for younger people within its patch, and whether...

One of the country’s major regional newspapers has launched a campaign for the urgent introduction of rent controls. The Bristol Evening Post,...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

Lettings franchisees under the Belvoir banner delivered the group an additional 10 per cent management service fees last year according to...

A prominent agent says the shortage of rental property is now so acute, and like to get still worse, that those...

One of the UK’s first ever Build To Rent companies, Fizzy Living, has been sold to a global real estate company...

A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy...

Home offices are already the most-demanded must have from prospective tenants says James Hay, director at Surrey lettings agency, The Home...

John D Wood & Co. Is the latest agency to go green with a move to making its fleet of company...

A lettings platform set up by a 24 year old is today announcing an expansion from its Bristol start up to...

Many young Britons allegedly live beyond their means, blaming high rents and “unforseen” agency charges as contributory reasons.  A home insurance company...

PropTech platform Lavanda says urban property is changing thanks to the pandemic, and it tells agents, landlords and other providers to...

All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...

A lettings agency in Manchester has received over 10,000 rental enquiries in just one month. Manchester Apartments says it received some  21,000...

Ex-Reapit and ex-Countrywide tech guru Gary Barker has joined co-living HMO platform COHO as a non-executive director - just weeks after...

The room-letting sector known as co-living, now growing in London, has seen occupancy levels bounce back since some Covid restrictions have...